US112597A - Improvement in cheese-hoops - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

AETEMAs HoLDaEDeE, or `wEsT BUELiNeToN, AND BENJAMIN E.

4HAEmNeToN AND `HENRY E. HAERrNeToN, or NEw BERLIN, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-HOOPS.

',Specificationforming part of Letters Patent N0. 112,597, dated March 14, 1871.

i To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that we, ARTEMAs HOLDREDGE, of West Burlington, in the county of Otsego, and BENJAMIN F. HARRINGTON and HENRY I-I. HARRINGTON, of New Berlin, in the county I of lChenan go and State of New York, have in-.

vented a new and Improved Cheese-Hoop; and we do herebydeclare that' the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference `being had' to the accompanying drawing, forming part x l jointed together at two or moreof the corners,

and detachably connected at one or both the other corners for opening to release the cheese after being pressed, each section being provided with locking-'cleats adapted for controlling the position of the superposed sections, all as hereinafter described.

Figure l'is a sectional elevation of our improved cheese-hoop or pressing-case. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The 'two side boardsA and B of each horizontal section of the case are, in this example,

connected to the side C by means of the sloty ted plates D, attached to the cleats E near one end, the said plates projecting beyond the end to receive the hook-shaped projections F of the plates G, att-ached to cleats H on the sideG, as shown; and the said sides are connected to the other side, I, by the tenons K' and keys M, the said tenons passing through the side I and cleatsL thereon; and the said `sides B and C havecleats N, which fit against narrow cleats O, attached `to the ends of the sides I, the latter 1 cleats` being employed to support the sides A and B against the lateral pressure in a way to relieve the tenons of such `force to a considerable extent. e

` Thecleats E, H, N, and AL are employed for holding the sections of the case, one upon anported sections properly by these cleats. Those on one section--say, the `lower onehave notches P in the upper end, and those on the upper section have notches Q, fitting thereon, as shown. This arrangementadmits of readily .removing the sections from the pressed cheese `by detaching the keys M, removing the side I, and swinging the sides B and C away from the cheese.

It will be observed that, by connecting the side B on A C rigidly at one corner, and making the opposite corner diagonally also rigid, and the corner diagonally the one opposite, hinged together. so as to open and close when swinging on the hinged corner, the saine results may be obtained.

It will also be observed that any approved form of hinged joints may be substituted for the slotted plates D and the hooked plates G, and we propose to employ such other hinge.

This improved sectional case is designed for pressing rectangularly shaped cheeses, such as indicated by the gure R, and is intended to be made in as many horizontal sections as the number of layers it is required to press at once, and so that more or less sections may be employed, according to the workin hand.

The lower section is placed on the platform of the press.

A plate or follower, S, is interposed between each layer of cheese, and the press-follower T acts upon the top plate S.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A rectangular cheese-hoop composed ot' the parts A B and (l I, secured together by the fastening devices herein shown and described, or their equivalents, substantially as specified.

2. The improved rectangular pressing-case composed of two or more .horizontal sections, the sides of each being "provided with cleats, and .respectively with projections Q and notches P, and hinged and locked together, substantially as specified.

ABTEMAS HOLDBEDGE. BENJAMIN If. HABBINGTON. HENRY H. HARBINGTON.

Witnesses:

A. M. AYLEsWoRTH, D. HERRINGTON.

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